There’s something delightful about the way certain franchises “rhyme,” as George Lucas aptly put it, from iteration to iteration. This is true for the Superman series in the way that every version of the cast follows the same formula: An up-and-coming star as Clark Kent, and an established actor as his beau, Lois Lane. Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams… the only question that really remained was if James Gunn would follow that blueprint for Superman: Legacy, the new starting point for the newly rechristened DCU, which is Gunn’s new cinematic universe that jettisons basically everything but Viola Davis and the rest of the Peacemaker/The Suicide Squad casts in favor of a fresh start.
And, sure enough, they stuck to the script. Your new Clark Kent is David Corenswet, an actor who’s appeared in the likes of Pearl, Look Both Ways, and The Politician. Don’t know him? You will. You do probably know the actor playing Lois, who is the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel herself, Rachel Brosnahan. Trust us, your mother is absolutely psyched about this choice. Not that we’d actually know first-hand, though. We’re just guessing. Deadline broke the news, which was summarily confirmed by Gunn on his socials. Interestingly enough, both of them are House of Cards veterans, though Brosnahan departed that show years before Corenswet joined on.
We’re gonna come out and say that these are pretty damn good choices that Gunn has made, with Corenswet being the only actor aside from Mia Goth that we remembered from Pearl (“Oh, the dude with the mustache! Yeah!”), and Brosnahan being just plenty delightful in any role we stumble across her in (maybe check out her work in USA’s Manhattan before Oppenheimer!). So, yeah, we’re stoked to see what Gunn has in store for all of us, given that he and Spider-Verse are the sole pillars of quality in a genre whose audience enthusiasm is fading rapidly.
Superman: Legacy hits theaters on July 11, 2025. Based on what we’re hearing — and remember, many Bothans died to bring you this information — you might want to go and check out “Whatever Happened to Truth, Justice and the American Way?” and some of the classic runs of The Authority to be properly prepared for what’s to come.